This article was featured in the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters’ Winter/Spring 2016 newsletter and discusses the importance of employer branding in your recruitment process. The article also provides points for consideration while planning your physician recruitment.
QuickNotes – Becoming a Health Center of Choice: Customer Service for Patient Engagement and Retention
This article was included in the April 2016 edition of NWRPCA’s newsletter QuickNotes. It was submitted by Health Outreach Partners (HOP) and describes HOP’s training curriculum on customer service to improve the patient experience.
ASPR – Medicine’s power couples: A challenge in recruiting physicians to rural areas
This article discusses the challenge of recruitng pysicians to work in rural areas due to the rise of “power couples”, couples with advanced degrees, and their unique needs.
Leadership IQ – The Biggest Mistake With Behavioral Interview Questions
Behavioral Interviewing is a great way to get to know more about a candidate if you are careful with how you phrase your questions. This article discusses how to avoid problematic questions in your interview process.
Tiva Healthcare – The Behavioral-Based Interview
This article outlines the benefits of behavioral-based interviewing and provides examples of useful types of questions to ask to determine desirable behaviors in a candidate.
IPHCA – Creating an Effective Candidate Site Visit
Read through this informative article for pointers on how to put together an effective site visit while recruiting candidates to your health center.
NHSC Clinician Retention: A Story of Dedication and Commitment
This brief from the Health Resources and Services Administration discusses the factors influencing an improvement in retention of National Health Service Corps clinicians in underserved areas beyond the successful completion of their term of service.
ASPR – The growing female physician workforce – Summer 2015
In 2013, 32 percent of the physician workforce was female, according to the most recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). However, that number appears poised to take a leap forward very soon. That’s because AAMC data also show that 47 percent of current medical students...
Kansas Health Institute – Rural Kansas hospital focuses on ‘mission-driven’ medicine to recruit doctors
A hospital in rural Kansas uses their mission driven approach to attract like minded physicians to their workforce.
Georgetown University – Cultural Competence in Health Care: Is it Important for People with Chronic Conditions?
“The increasing diversity of the nation brings opportunities and challenges for health care providers, health care systems, and policy makers to create and deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competence is defined as the ability of providers and organizations to effectively deliver health care services that meet the social, cultural,...